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H. Richard Archer, Clark MemorialLibrary
Richard C. Boys, University ofMichigan
Edward Niles Hooker, Universityof California, Los Angeles
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., Universityof California, Los Angeles
W. Earl Britton, University ofMichigan
John Loftis, University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles
Emmett L. Avery, State College ofWashington
Benjamin Boyce, University ofNebraska
Louis I. Bredvold, University ofMichigan
Cleanth Brooks, YaleUniversity
James L. Clifford, ColumbiaUniversity
Arthur Friedman, University ofChicago
Samuel H. Monk, University ofMinnesota
Ernest Mossner, University ofTexas
James Sutherland, Queen MaryCollege, London
The present pamphlet was published in February 1754, after sixvolumes of Sir Charles Grandison had appeared and about a monthbefore the appearance of the seventh and last volume. ThoughGrandison was technically anonymous, its authorship was generallyknown, and the pamphlet refers to Richardson by name. Sale’sbibliography gives further details (Samuel Richardson:A Bibliographical Record, New Haven, 1936, pp. 131-32),including the suggestion of the Monthly Review (X, 159-60)that the author was Alexander Campbell, who also wrote A Free andCandid Examination of Lord Bolingbroke’s Letters on History (1753).The pro-Bolingbroke and deistic sentiments of the CriticalRemarks lend color